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So it’s my boyfriend’s birthday today and he absolutely loves cats, so what kind of cake was I to make for his birthday? A cat one of of course! I followed a recipe from a very old book, so I’ll post that below as well a a simplified version of the items I used.

Simplified for experienced bakers:

• I made two standard Victoria Sponge cakes, in a 1 pint pudding basin and a 2 pint pudding basin
• I shaped the smaller cake into a sphere so it could be the head
• I stuck the two cakes together with buttercream icing
• I used this buttercream icing with orange food dye to cover the cake
• I used sponge fingers  to make the paws and the tail, covering them in icing also
• The ears are made out of hollowed out ice cream cones
• The nose, collar and mouth are assorted pick ‘n’ mix sweets
• I cut the eyes out of regular icing, which also formed the writing
• And finally added the spaghetti whiskers for good measure

Official recipe as per my cook book:

You will need (cake):1 pint pudding basin, 2 pint pudding basin 250g butter, 250g caster sugar, 4 eggs, 250g self-raising flour and 2 tablespoons of hot water, 3 sponge fingers, 2 ice cream cones, few liquorice sweets, 1 piece red liquorice ribbon, few short pieces of spaghetti

You will need (butter icing): 250g butter, 500g sifted icing sugar, 4 tablespoons milk, colourant

1. Line and grease the pudding basins
2. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees/Gas mark 4
3. Cream the fat and the sugar together until light and fluffy
4. Beat in the eggs one at a time, adding a tablespoon of flour with the third egg
5. Fold in the remaining flour with a metal spoon, then the hot water
6. Two-thirds fill each basin with the mixture
7. Bake in the preheated oven an hour for the small cake and an hour and twenty minutes for the large
8. While cooking, make the butter icing (recipe below)
9. Turn onto a wire rack to cool
10. Trim the small cake into a ball for the head
11. Place the large cake on a cake board and fix the small one on top with a little butter icing
12. Position a sponge finger at the side for a tail
13. Cut a slice off the other sponge fingers, place them either side of the chest, as legs and paws
14. Cut the tips off the ice cream cones and place on either side of the head for ears
15. Cover the kitten with icing
16. Shape the sweets for the eyes and nose, press into position
17. Tie the liquorice round the neck in a bow and position the spaghetti as whiskers

Butter Icing:

1. Beat the butter with half the icing sugar until smooth
2. Add remaining icing sugar with the milk and flavouring/colourant
3. Beat until creamy

Hope this helped and that you enjoyed my kitty cat cake! xxxxx

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